Working in America 2013

Tuesday Jan 29, 2013 7:30PM to 9:30PM This is a past program

As efforts to eradicate union representation in America’s labor market gain ground, organized labor confronts questions of survival and relevance. Union representatives Maria Elena Durazo and Paul Booth and labor scholar Harley Shaiken offer strategies to rebuild a movement to create a robust economy for all Americans. Durazo is executive secretary–treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor; Booth is executive assistant to the president of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees; and Shaiken is a professor of social and cultural studies at the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley, where he specializes in issues of work, technology, and globalization.

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